
The Conquest of Labor
Daniel Pratt and Southern Industrialization
Curtis J. Evans(Author)
Louisiana State University Press
Published on 1. August 2001
Book
Hardback
360 pages
978-0-8071-2695-0 (ISBN)
Description
The Conquest of Labor is the first biography of Daniel Pratt, a New Hampshire native who became one of the South's most important industrialists. After moving to Alabama in 1833 Pratt started a cotton gin factory near Montgomery that by the eve of the Civil War had become the largest in the world. Pratt and his economic agenda-industrialization, chartering banks, building railroads- proved popular in Alabama. Although historians have portrayed Pratt as politically and culturally isolated and at odds with an agrarian region, Evans demonstrates that Pratt succeeded both in utilizing skilled and unskilled southern white labor in his factories and in fashioning a culturally sophisticated town.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Baton Rouge
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
15 halftones, 3 maps, 1 chart
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8071-2695-0 (9780807126950)
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Person
Curtis J. Evans, an Alabama native, lives in Northport, Alabama near Tuscaloosa. He received his B.A. in history at the University of Alabama, his M.A. and Ph.D. in history from LSU, and his J.D. in Law from Vanderbilt University. This is his first book.